Please submit a printed version of your essay at the start of class tomorrow. I would appreciate you also sending a pdf or .doc copy to csmith@corcoran.org (encouraged but not required).
Here are a few last-minute suggestions and strategies for submitting academic essays, and a couple steps that we all need to be mindful about. Take this advice or leave it; it's only meant to be helpful.
Even though it seems too obvious to mention, you have to carefully read your essay. Don't read it only to make sure that the grammar, spelling, mechanics, and English usage is right. And don't read it only to make sure that your documentation (either MLA or Chicago) is conscious, deliberate, and correct. Read your essay to make sure that it makes sense. Leave yourself enough time to make the changes that you want to make. In other words, don't wait until the very last minute to do this.
Give your essay a meaningful title (see the examples in the pdf readings folders on the flash drive).
Put your personality into your writing (without referring to yourself more than sparingly, and without writing in an inappropriately informal voice).
Don't be afraid to speculate, hypothesize, and ask questions.
I could go and on, but I'll end it here.
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